Pat Badani's intermedia works explore social space and connectivity across several media platforms. She creates communicational spaces to investigate personal and collective territorial boundaries and aspects of globalization such as migration, nomadism, translocal identities and language convergence. She is also interested in the migration of images-in-motion brought about by electronic mediation where images migrate from every-day public spaces to video-screening rooms, to exhibition-spaces, and to Web-spaces.

Her projects have been discussed and shown in numerous international New Media Festivals and Symposia, as well as in Museums, Contemporary Art Centers and galleries in Canada, the USA, Europe and Latin America. Some of these venues include ISEA (United Arab Emirates, Australia, Turkey, Ireland & France); FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE LA IMAGEN (Colombia); VideoAKT International Biennial (Spain); FILE (Brazil); NEW FORMS FESTIVAL (Canada); MECAD Media Center (Spain); ESPACIO FUNDACION TELEFONICA (Argentina); MEDI@TERRA (Greece); MUSEO DE ARTE MODERNO (Mexico); MUSEO DE MONTERREY (Mexico); CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTER (Paris, France); MUSEE DE BAS ST. LAURENT (Canada); HEXAGRAM RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Canada); and FRAC (Corsica, France); to name a few.

Born in Argentina, Pat Badani is a Canadian artist (with USA citizenship) who has lived in 7 countries in the Americas and Europe, and relocated to Chicago in the USA in 1999 after a decade-long residence in Paris, France. She earned a BFA from the University of Alberta in Canada, and an MFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She is a full-time artist, curator, writer and educator having created and taught a digital media curriculum in the School of Art at Illinois State University, USA. In 2007-08 she was full time Lecturer and acting director of the Interdisciplinary Arts (Media) program at Columbia College, Chicago (USA). Currently, she is Editor-in-Chief of "Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus."

Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus, is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the 2013 Spring Edition, guest edited by Juliet Davis and Stephanie Tripp and entitled “Tracing New/Media/Feminisms.”

TIMELINE- November 26, 2012: Deadline for reception of abstracts/proposals.- December 13, 2012: Notification of acceptance.- February 3, 2013: Deadline for reception of final papers/artworks.

GUEST EDITORSJuliet Davis and Stephanie Tripp

Media-N Editor-in-ChiefPat Badani

TITLE OF THE EDITION

Tracing New/Media/Feminisms

THEME SUMMARYThis issue of Media-N attempts to trace ways new media continues to transform and extend feminist practice and thought.

DESCRIPTION:As the Internet entered the popular imagination in the early 1990s, many strands of feminism engaged with new media to produce exciting critical and creative work described as cyberfeminism, techno-feminism, e-feminism, digital feminism, or a variety of other terms. Some feminists critiqued technological development as an extension of existing patriarchal systems, while others eschewed critique and instead playfully or defiantly utilized technology to author their own visions. With the World Wide Web now beginning its third decade, it’s time to reassess the work of these digital feminisms, to trace their genealogies and transformations, to explore their current manifestations, and to envision what forms and roles they may assume in the future. On one hand, many problems that prompted feminist interventions in new media two decades ago persist today and, in some cases, have intensified. [1] On the other hand, salient projects—many of them pushing the boundaries of new media art far into the realms of political activism and popular media forms—may serve as reminders of important goals established by early digital feminists or define new ones. Calls for reassessment already have arisen from scholars such as Mary Flanagan and Suyin Looui, who have looked for models beyond the definition of “‘classic’ cyberfeminist art” that nevertheless use new media to promote feminist aims. [2] It is the goal of this special issue to provide a forum for new thinking about new/media/feminisms: past, present, and future.

The editors encourage potential contributors to consider how feminist work in new media has changed over the past three decades, and to identify contemporary theories and practices that are reshaping perspectives in this field. How are artists rethinking or reintuiting feminism through contemporary art practices? How do these practices relate to or diverge from established feminist lineages? How have changes in new media technologies, such as the advent of mobile computing and social media, influenced feminist approaches to media?

The editors welcome creative and traditional formats of submissions that address new media feminisms, past and present.

Submissions may take the form of: - artist’s statements and artwork- manifestos or performance scripts- critical discussions of exhibitions or select works - case studies of artists, artworks, or collectives - interviews of theorists/practitioners/critics - historical survey essays- theoretical works- hybrid critical works- and other formsPossible subjects include:- Artists’ perspectives on feminist influences in their own artwork- Critical perspectives on new media content and/or uses.- Responses to new media culture- Curatorial perspectives on feminism in new media- Art historical responses to feminism and new mediaABSTRACT GUIDELINESPlease send your submission proposal with the following information, byemail to: Juliet.davis@ut.edu AND stripp@ut.edu with 'Media-NSubmission' and your name(s) in the subject line.

Include your Email(s), Proposal Title, 300-500 word Proposal Description, upto 3 page Resume, and your Title/Affiliation (the institution/organizationyou work with if applicable, or independent scholar/practitioner.) Note:submissions of artworks should also include a link to online documentation.

If you have questions about Media-N, please feel free to contact:Pat Badani, Editor in Chief Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucusmedianjournal.badani@gmail.com

Media-N was established in 2005 to provide a forum for New Media Caucusmembers, featuring their scholarly research, artworks and projects. The NewMedia Caucus is a nonprofit, international membership organization thatadvances the conceptual and artistic use of digital media. Additionally, theNMC is a College Art Association Affiliate Society.http://www.newmediacaucus.org/http://www.newmediacaucus.org/wp/media-n-journal/----------------

1. Problems include limited or unequal opportunities for women in computing and information technology professions, relatively small numbers of young women seeking degrees in technology fields, repetitive gendered labor in technologized areas domestically and globally, exclusion from or discrimination within high-status workplace or leisure activities, gender-based cyberbullying, and pervasive sexual objectification in gaming and other popular technology-driven media.2. Flanagan, Mary, and Suyin Looui. “Rethinking the F Word: A Review of Activist Art on the Internet.” NWSA Journal 19 (2007): 181-200.

Call for Papers Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus Fall 2012 edition.

Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus is making an open call for submissions to our upcoming Fall 2012 issue, entitled “Found, Sampled, Stolen: Strategies of Appropriation in New Media.”

TIMELINE June 1, 2012: Deadline for submission of abstracts/proposals.June 30, 2012: Notification of acceptance.September 12, 2012: Deadline for submission of final papers.

GUEST EDITORJoshua Rosenstock

Media-N Journal EDITOR-IN-CHIEFPat Badani

TITLE OF THE EDITION“Found, Sampled, Stolen: Strategies of Appropriation in New Media.”

THEME SUMMARY Creative reprocessing of appropriated digital source material by New Media artists: an investigation into theory and practice.

DESCRIPTIONFrom peer-to-peer file sharing networks, Wikileaks and YouTube, to open data APIs, New Media practitioners today have extraordinary access to digital found materials. At the same time, legal disputes over fair use, such as the 2011 Richard Prince vs. Patrick Cariou case, continue to polarize the art world. This edition of Media-N Journal will examine the diverse strategies that contemporary electronic artists deploy while recontextualizing appropriated media and information into new artworks, with a particular eye toward the present moment and the current state of the legal, technological, and institutional landscape of sampling and appropriation. Possible topics may include: culture jamming and tactical media interventions; mashups; hijacked surveillance feeds; social media memes and their spinoffs; and data moshing. Further topics of exploration include the conceptual discourses and protocols that inform such creative practices, from “versioning” in Afro-diasporic musical traditions to the Copyleft and Open Source movements and beyond.

The deadline for submission of abstracts/proposals is June 1, 2012. The Guest Editor (Joshua Pablo Rosenstock, Associate Professor of Interactive Media & Game Development at Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and Media-N’s Editorial Board will review submissions. Selected authors will be notified by June 30th, 2012, and finished papers will be due September 12, 2012. Please note that Media-N must be the first publisher of the submitted text.

Name(s) Last name(s):Title/Affiliation: (such as the institution/organization you work with –if applicable– or independent scholar/practitioner.)Email(s):Proposal Title: Abstract: word-count 300 to 500 words.Author’s Bio: (word-count 50) and a link to your professional Website(s).

If you have questions about Media-N Journal, please feel free to contact: Pat Badani Editor-in-Chief, Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus medianjournal.badani@gmail.com

Media-N was established in 2005 to provide a forum for New Media Caucus members, featuring their scholarly research, artworks and projects. The New Media Caucus is a nonprofit, international membership organization that advances the conceptual and artistic use of digital media. Additionally, the NMC is a College Art Association Affiliate Society. http://www.newmediacaucus.org/

Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus is making an open call for submissions to the Reviews, Commentaries and Papers section of our upcoming spring issue.

The deadline for submission is February 10th.

The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board will review submissions. Selected authors will be notified by February 29th.

This section of the journal offers opportunities for authors to address topics of current interest in brief, exploratory essays of 1,500 words. Please note that Media-N must be the first publisher of the submitted text.

Please indicate media formats, locations for insertion within the text, and captions. Also pay special attention to our publication guidelines and the specifications in our media submission guidelines found in the links below: